Words Before Pictures

How Screenplays Make Movies

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by Simon Passmore

Type: Essays
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Keywords: scriptwriting
Publishing date: 2020
Publisher: Independant
Language: English

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Paperback • 274 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-8380291-2-8

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Book Presentation:
Screenplays are vital to the making of film and TV drama, yet they're routinely obscured and misrepresented in much of what's written about film and screenwriting. Simon Passmore uses his experience in professional practice, teaching, and academia to bring together differing and often conflicting ideas about what screenplays are and how they function. Words Before Pictures throws light on the divergent views of screenplays found in screenwriting manuals, academic studies, and practitioner accounts, and proposes new ways of conceptualising screenplays that recognise their crucial role in bringing films into being.

About the Author:
Simon Passmore is a writer and producer. His credits include many films and drama series, as well as radio drama and fiction. He also has experience as an academic researcher and from 2007 to 2019 taught film production and screenwriting at the University of Westminster, where he was Senior Lecturer.

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